i love researchers, especially the ones that get paid to confirm the obvious.

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What about the ones that get paid to make up complete guff? Remember the survey that said Nottingham was the most dangerous place to live in the UK, and that Southend was the safest?! Apparently they screwed up the crime figures, applying the crime figures from the county (quite big) to the population of Nottingham City (really not very big), so there were something like three crimes for every inhabitant! My girlfriend's from Southend, and she feels a lot safer going out at night in Nottingham - the only reason she never got mugged back home was because all the muggers were her yoofs (she's a yoof worker)...

Edinburgh rocks. Never been to Glasgow, but all the media portrayals of it as a drug addled jobless wasteland have never really inspired me to.

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You're not missing much - the homeless men shambling around the concourse at Central Station aren't exactly a welcoming sight, and the city centre has the highest concentration of Big Issue sellers/sq. m. I've ever seen. Further out, it really isn't that far removed from what you see in 'Still Game'!

Never been to Glasgow, and at this rate I never will. If I go up to Scotland I'll be going to Argyll to see some friends, or Edinburgh to see some friends I used to work with, or Edinburgh to see a friend I haven't seen for years.